Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/rīgisamos

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

Following the interpretation by Delamarre as "very royal",^[1] this would effectively be *rīxs (“king”) (or some adjective derivative thereof) suffixed with *-isamos (superlative suffix).

Adjective

*rīgisamos

very kingly, royal

Inflection

O/ā-stem
masculine	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*rīgisamos	*rīgisamou	*rīgisamoi
vocative	*rīgisame	*rīgisamou	*rīgisamoi
accusative	*rīgisamom	*rīgisamou	*rīgisamons
genitive	*rīgisamī	*rīgisamous	*rīgisamom
dative	*rīgisamūi	*rīgisamobom	*rīgisamobos
instrumental	*rīgisamū	*rīgisamobim	*rīgisamobis
feminine	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*rīgisamā	*rīgisamai	*rīgisamās
vocative	*rīgisamā	*rīgisamai	*rīgisamās
accusative	*rīgisamam	*rīgisamai	*rīgisamans
genitive	*rīgisamās	*rīgisamous	*rīgisamom
dative	*rīgisamai	*rīgisamābom	*rīgisamābos
instrumental	*?	*rīgisamābim	*rīgisamābis
neuter	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*rīgisamom	*rīgisamou	*rīgisamā
vocative	*rīgisamom	*rīgisamou	*rīgisamā
accusative	*rīgisamom	*rīgisamou	*rīgisamā
genitive	*rīgisamī	*rīgisamous	*rīgisamom
dative	*rīgisamūi	*rīgisamobom	*rīgisamobos
instrumental	*rīgisamū	*rīgisamobim	*rīgisamobis

Descendants

Gaulish: *rīgisamos
- → Latin: Rīgisamus (epithet of Mars)
Celtiberian:
- → Latin: Rīxamī, Rīxamae (divine names in the plural^[2])

References

^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 261
^ Prósper, Blanca María (2018) “The Indo-European Personal Names of Pannonia, Noricum and Northern Italy: Comparative and Superlative Forms in Celtic, Venetic, and South-Picene”, in Voprosy onomastiki, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, pages 108–138

[1] Delamarre, Xavier (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 261

[2] Prósper, Blanca María (2018) “The Indo-European Personal Names of Pannonia, Noricum and Northern Italy: Comparative and Superlative Forms in Celtic, Venetic, and South-Picene”, in Voprosy onomastiki, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, pages 108–138

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